"Piet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I am trying to find examples of how and where to use $_POST, $_GET etc. I
> searched a lot of places, but cant seem to find decent examples or a
> tutorial or something.
$_POST and $_GET are associative arrays containing the form data sent by a
user to a page. Whether your user's submitted form data is in $_POST or
$_GET depends on what method attribute you've specified in the <form> tag in
your HTML code. Take a look at the following HTML example:
<form method="get" action="script.php">
<input type="text" name="firstName">
<input type="text" name="lastName">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Now in the file script.php you can access the submitted form values in the
$_GET array, using the form field names as array keys. e.g:
<?php
$firstName = $_GET['firstName'];
$lastName = $_GET['lastName'];
echo 'The user submitted the name'.$firstName.' '.$lastName;
?>
If you had set the <form method="post"> in your HTML, then you could have
accessed the form values from the $_POST array within PHP.
Hope that helps,
Al
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